23 de junio de 2021

Salmon industry in Chile and increased bacterial resistance to antibiotics: Shorebirds are reservoirs and potential spreaders

Scientists recorded multi-resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes in the migratory water bird “straight-billed curlew”, which lives in Chiloé where the salmon industry operates, and which...
7 de junio de 2021

Ecoceanos and the Cetacea Conservation Centre call for a boycott of the consumption of industrial salmon, to stop the death of marine mammals in South of Chile

The expansion of the salmon industry in southern Chile seriously threatens dolphins, whales and sea lions. CCC-chile.org has reported, in the northern Patagonia area, two blue...
22 de mayo de 2021

A Letter in “Science” magazine recommends stopping the salmon expansion in Chile and using the Constituent process to increase regulations

The undersigned academics ask international consumers to convince Chile to protect Patagonian biodiversity «from the environmental effects of salmon aquaculture.» They also recommend the strengthening of...
19 de mayo de 2021

Salmon industry goes to the Constitutional Court, inherited from the Pinochet dictatorship, to weaken the Mapuche-Lafkenche Law and not pay fines for escaping salmon

In 2018, hundreds of thousands of salmon, exotic and carnivorous species for Chilean waters, escaped from salmon farms that the multinational Mowi maintains on Guar Island,...
4 de mayo de 2021

Blood Salmon: on average one diver dies per month in the Chilean salmon industry during 2021

The death of a diver at the Gala 2 salmon farming center owned by AquaChile, the world’s second largest producer of farmed salmon, means the fourth...
30 de abril de 2021

Deregulation in the salmon industry increases episodes of contamination by harmful algae bloom, says Puerto Montt Medical College

•    In the Los Lagos region, there would no longer be healthy and clean marine areas to compare them with contaminated areas. •    «It is fundamental...
15 de abril de 2021

Salmon companies are required to moratorium and their urgent exit from lakes, fjords and canals of southern Chile

Salmon companies are required to moratorium and their urgent exit from lakes, fjords and canals of southern Chile. Pollution is outrageous for citizens, indigenous communities and...
1 de abril de 2021

Patagonian Far West: Aqua Chile salmon company agrees collaboration with four Kawesqar communities

– The hidden reason for the salmon company in this express agreement in Patagonia is to obtain «social licenses» to certify it´s salmon in the international...
25 de marzo de 2021

Salmon transnational company, sanctioned for violating the law and providing false health and environmental information, obtains international certification

Nova Austral, owned by Norwegian and US capital, was sanctioned by the Chilean authorities for falsifying health-environmental information, and carrying out overproductions of salmon in its...